2019-05-15 conda-forge meeting

Pinned Items

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New items

• Discuss the use of Drone (native ARM) in conda-forge.
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-smithy/pull/1069
• Make conda-forge enhancements proposal a "first class citizen" and it a voting process for approving them in our governance docs. (scopatz volunteered to add it to the docs.)
• SciPy plans and how to spend ESIP/NumFOCUS sprint grant money.
  • Buy dedicated machines.
• Elections/Governance Upcoming helper for staged-recipes - jan jansen (TODO)
  • Staged-recipes team in Governance doc (Review and merge)
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io/pull/738
  • Add formal budget team to Governance doc.
  • Make the spreadsheets available to all (NumFOCUS team drive folder).
• Should we "dogfood" strict, which may be default in the next conda, in our CIs?
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-ci-setup-feedstock/pull/50
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/8009
  • Perform switch after blas migration is more finished (ocefpaf: check the blas migration status.)
    • Need to either copy over new compiler activation scripts package to cf
    • Or delete ours entirely
    • TODO: Verify that smithy and pinnings are fine for the compilers
• Azure status
  • Need to fix windows (vc9/14 and cmake)
  • Credentials issues (need pipelines account to access Azure, will move to GH auth soon)
  • How to handle bespoke build agents (for builds taking longer than 6 hours (qt, compilers, etc.)
  • How to restart an Azure job?
• NVIDIA
  • Louder communication path for large ecosystem shifts (compiler migrations)
    • Banner on AnacondaCloud, status updates on channel
    • Print something while using conda install
    • More frequent updates
  • AnacondaCloud can fall over (mirroring conda)
  • Try to track down hard linked drivers in GPU packages.
  • Progress on colo talks for bins of gpus at Anaconda (Waiting on Mike W. on this.)
• Migrations
  • Blas
    • Underway
  • Libprotobuf
    • Underway
  • gfortran (wait for cfep-09)
    • Need to build a migrator for new osx gfortran
    • https://github.com/conda-forge/conda-forge-pinning-feedstock/pull/174 maybe?
  • Power and Arm
    • Ongoing https://conda-forge.org/status/
    • More leafs to target?
  • Openssl
    • Underway
  • Readline (wait for cfep-09)
    • ABI change
    • Needs migrator
  • @Christopher W : Add link to migration (conda-forge status?) docs for conda-forge.github.io (ocefpaf: I’ll add the status link to the docs)
• Nvidia relationship
  • Building GPU packages using conda-forge packages, upload to their own channel after building with cudatoolkit on their own Jenkins system.
  • GPU compiler shim package: https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/pull/8229
  • Maybe form a working group?
• Perl ecosystem? (ocefpaf:Ask bBjorn G.)
  • move forward with plan to incorporate perl into CF
    • Do we have an issue or something for this?
• R 3.6 migration? (ocefpaf: Ask bBjorn G.)
  • https://github.com/conda-forge/r-base-feedstock/pull/82